Sentence examples for almost told her from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "almost told her" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that someone was on the verge of sharing information or a secret with a female person but ultimately did not do so.
Example: "I almost told her about the surprise party, but I caught myself just in time."
Alternatives: "nearly revealed to her" or "was close to telling her".

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She has meant to tell Lexie about Mark, has almost told her a few times, but then at the last second held back.

WITHIN a few weeks of having an XM Satellite Radio antenna and receiver installed in the family minivan, I found myself thinking of the old joke about the taciturn farmer who loved his wife so much that he almost told her.

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Bruce Wayne goes from avoiding Vicki Vale to (almost) telling her his secret identity.

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The sole survivor of a notorious attack in a Newark schoolyard that left her brother and two friends dead almost three years ago, Ms. Aeriel told her story publicly for the first time in State Superior Court in Essex County.

"I was Patient Zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously," she told her TED Talk audience.

"I'm as baffled at the end as I was at the beginning," she said, despite having met academics, doctors and researchers who told her almost everything there is to know about alcohol.

Almost every day, Jeffrey told her he wanted to see his father.

"You'll get to the top," I told her, almost reluctantly, "but you shouldn't... " "What?" "Nothing," I said.

One reporter was almost overcome when Mr. Kressley told her that he liked her handbag.

Anita Harris said she "almost collapsed" after doctors told her she had breast cancer and needed a double mastectomy in order to survive.

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